Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The City Museum - Homage to the Corn Dog

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The corn dog is an American culinary artifact, not found on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food pyramid for healthy eating. It consists of a hot dog covered in cornmeal batter, deep fried and served on a stick. You are most likely to find it at a fair or carnival.

For some reason, the City Museum has a little shrine to corn dogs is a quiet part of the top floor. St. Louis Cardinal great Stan Musial swings a corn dog instead of a baseball bat. There is a large occult sign of the Ancient and Mysterious Order of the Corn Dog. It is displayed over a warning that "corndog mysticism has been definitively proven to contain or advocate trickery, treachery, mummery, pageantry, tomfoolery, buffoonery, sophistry, wizardry, lechery, debauchery, laissez faire capitalism, socialism and Bohemianism." I'll take some of those! The bottom photo shows a series of three Andy Warhol pictures with former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle and his wife Marilyn in front of a corn dog stand. And there's more, but this is enough for a blog post.

It's so strange.

WHAT HAPPENED AT WORK YESTERDAY: I met a new client who is from Bangalore, India. Not a common event.

TOMORROW: I was going to post something else from the City Museum but VJ reminds me that tomorrow is Thursday, Arch day. Oh oh! Losing track of the day of the week again. Was I supposed to work this hard when I got this old? The Arch it is.

I had my first corn dog when I was a freshman in college in Louisiana. And I have loved it ever since.

But I haven't had it in a long time until last week when my out-of-town friends and I went to Coney Island. They wanted to eat at Nathan's so we grabbed some hotdogs and I had a corn dog. Boy oh boy, was it delicious!!